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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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regarding the ruling on the one who abandons prayer?

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The questioner : Regarding the one who abandons prayer being a disbeliever, what is the difference between him and
Whoever has intercourse with his wife in her rear passage has disbelieved in what was revealed to Muhammad. من أتى امرأته في دبرها فقد كفر بما أنزل على محمد
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 6:817
?

The Shaykh : What?

The questioner : The difference between the hadiths?

The Shaykh : Yes, yes,
Whoever has intercourse with his wife in her rear passage has disbelieved in what was revealed to Muhammad. من أتى امرأته في دبرها فقد كفر بما أنزل على محمد
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 6:817
this is expressed using the verb form.

The questioner : Yes, indeed.

The Shaykh : And the verb is absolute; it is true of a single instance. So the meaning is that he commits a type of disbelief, a type of disbelief. But when it says:
Between man and polytheism and unbelief بين الرجل وبين الشّرك والكفر
Sahih Muslim 82b
it uses the definite article "al" indicating the genus, which is the disbelief that expels one from the religion. Yes, this is the difference.

The questioner : ...
Whoever visits a fortune-teller. من أتى كاهنًا


The Shaykh : Yes, because it says:
He has committed disbelief فقد كفر
and the verb does not indicate generality, like:
Two (things) are found among men which are tantamount to unbelief اثنتان في الناس هما بهم كفر
Sahih Muslim 67
they are disbelief. It did not say this is the disbelief.

The questioner : Yes, indeed.

The Shaykh : Shaykh al-Islam says there is a difference between the definite "al-kufr" (the disbelief) and the indefinite "kufr" (disbelief).

The questioner : Was anything reported?

The Shaykh : I mean, this is not the only evidence for the disbelief of the one who abandons prayer; there are other proofs.

The questioner : I mean the difference between.

The Shaykh : Yes, this is the difference. As for "al" here, it is for the genus, so it indicates the disbelief that is the opposite of faith. But as for
Two (things) are found among men which are tantamount to unbelief اثنتان في الناس هما بهم كفر
Sahih Muslim 67
or
then he has disbelieved in what was revealed to Muhammad. فقد كفر بما أنزل على محمّد
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 135Hasan (Darussalam)
, this is an absolute verb, and it is also a lesser disbelief.

The questioner : Yes, indeed.

The Shaykh : Yes, indeed.
Source alathar.net

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